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Leading Financial 
and 

Business Men 
of Toronto 

WORK of artistic color plates 
designed to portray one hundred 
leading men of Toronto, both finan- 
cially and socially. 



Inscribed and dedicated to those men whose valued 
patronage contributed so largely towards its success. 



Published by 

EDWIN McCORMlCK 
TORONTO 
1912 



SIR EDMUND BOYD OSLER M.P. 

Born, Township of Tecumseh, Simcoe County, Ontario, 1845. 

Head of the firm of Osier & Hammond, leading financiers and 
stock brokers. 

President: Dominion Bank and Ontario and Quebec Railway. 

Director: Canadian Pacific Railway, Toronto General Trusts Cor- 
poration, Canada North-West Land Companj^, Confederation 
Life Association, Canadian General Electric Company, Lim- 
ited. 

Was President in 1896, Toronto Board of Trade : President On- 
tario Rifle Association. 

Represented Canada at the Congress of the Chamber of Congress, 
London, England, 1896. 

Representative of West Toronto in the House of Commons since 
1896. 

Clubs: Toronto, York, Albany, Toronto; Rideau Club, Ottawa. 
Knighted by King George V. 1912. 



WILLIAM REES BROCK. 

Born, Eramosa, Ontario, 1836. 

President : W. R. Brock Company, Limited, of Toronto, Montreal 
and Calgarv, and of the Canadian Greneral Electric Company, 
Limited. 

Vice-President : Western Assurance Com})any, British American 
Assurance Company. 

Director : The Dominion Bank, Toronto General Trusts Corpora- 
tion. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, Albany, and Toronto Hunt Club; St. James 
Club, Montreal. 



WILMOT DELOUI MATHEWS. 



Born, Burford, Brant County, Ontario, 1850. 

Senior member of the firm of W. B. Mathews & Company, grain 
and produce merchants. 

Was President in 1878, Toronto Corn Exchange, and in 1887-88, 
Toronto Board of Trade. 

Director, Canadian Pacific Railway. 

Vice-President: The Dominion Bank, Canada Permanent Mort- 
gage Corporation, Confederation Life Association, Toronto 
General Trusts Corporation. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, Hunt, R. C. Y. C, Lambton Golf and 
Country Club, Toronto ; Mount Royal Club, Montreal ; Mani- 
toba Club, Winnipeg ; Grosvenor Club, London, England. 



JAMES H. PLUMMER. 

Bom, Tavistock, Devonsliire, England, 1848. 

Was Assistant General Manager of the Merchants Bank of Can- 
ada, 1882, and in 1886 lie rejoined the staff of the Canadian 
Bank of Commerce as Assistant General Manager. He was 
for some years a member of the Editing Committee of the 
Canadian Bankers' Association, and was its Chairman in 
1894. 

Seijior Member of the firm of Pliunmer & Plummer, Toronto, and 
identifip^l ^vith n mnriher of -finPTir-ial fi'^ifl indiiF^trial inBtitn- 
tions 

Vice-President, Canada Life Aesiiranee Company. 

Vice-President, Mexican Light and Power Company, Limited, 

President: Dominion Iron and Steel Company, Limited, Cana- 
dian Lake and Ocean Navigation Company. Limiterl, Electric 
raid Trnin LTf>'hti-'iP' Rviidipgie, Limited, 

Director: Niagara, bi. Catharines and Toronto Railway, National 
Trust Company, Sao Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Com- 
pany, Imperial Life Insurance Company. 

Was elected Vice-Commodore Royal Canadian Yacht Club, 1897. 

Clubs: York, National, R. C. Y. C, etc., Toronto; Mount Royal 
Club, Montreal. 



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HON. GEORGE ALBERTUS COX, 



Born, Colborne, Nortlmmberland County, Ontario, 1840. 

President: Canada Life Assurance Company, Central Canada 
Loan and Savings Company, Western Assurance Company, 
British Arnerican Assuranr-e Company, Toronto Savings and 
Loan Company. 

l>irectoi': Canadian Bank of Commerce, National Trust Company, 
Canadian General Electric Company, Limited, Dominion Iron 
and Steel Company, Toronto Railway Company, Grand Trunk 
Pacific Railway, and Ottawa Electric Railway Company, 
Toronto Electric Light Company and Sao Paulo Tramway, 
Light and Power Company. 

Bursar of Victoria Uui^■ersity ; Member Canadian Senate since 
1896. 

Clubs : York, National, R. C. Y. Club, Toronto , Lambton Golf and 
Country Club; Rideau and Ottawa Country Clubs, Ottawa; 
St. James Club, Montreal; Manitoba Club, Winnipeg; City 
Midday Club, l^ew York. 



HON. SIR LYMAN MELVIN JONES. 

Born, County of York, Ontario, 1843. 

President and Genera] Manager, Ma ssey- Harris Company, Lim- 
ited. 

President, Bain Wagon (\)nipany, Limited, Woodstock. 

Direeto]': Canadian Bank of Commerce, Verity Plow Company, 
Limited, Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company, Limited, Can- 
ada Cycle and Motor Company, Limited. 

Member, ( ■auadian Senate since 1901. 

Was Mayor of \Viuni]:)eg and \'ice-President Board of Trade, 
1888; Provincial Treasurer, Manitoba Grovernment, 1888-1 889. ^ 

Knighted by iving George V., 1911. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, National, K. C. Y. C. and Hunt Club, To- 
ronto; Rideau Club, Ottawa. 



SIR EDMUND BYRON WALKER, C.V.O., LL,D., D.C.L, 

Born, Hamilton, Ontario, 1848. 

President, Canadian Bank of Commerce, 

liirfcctor, Toronto bejueral Trusts Corporation, etc. 

Senator, University of Toronto; Member National Battlefields' 
Commission of Canada ; President and founder of the Cham- 
plain Society for publishing rare works on Canadian History ; 
Member of the Advisory Council for purchase of works of art 
for the National Gallery of Canada. 

Was ^Mipimuin of Bankers' Section of Toronto Board of Trade 
r^nt of the lian Bankers' Associatiori. 

Was ci-eui-ed Vuuiiiiauaer of tlie Victorian Order by the King in 
1910, 

J^'' r the Geol Society of England and of the Institute 

of Bankers of England. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, R. C. Y. C, Hunt and Lambton Coif and 
Country (/lubs, Toronto; St. James, Montreal; Rideau Club, 
Ottawa, and Devonshire London, England, 




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COL. SIR HENRY MILL PELLATT. 



Born, Toronto, Ontario, 1860. 

Senior , Member of the firm of Pellatt & Pellatt, fii}an<ders aiid 
stock brokers. 

President: Toronto Electric Liglit Company, British and Colonial 
Land and Securities Company, British- Canadian Dock and 
Ship Building Company, Electrical Development Company of 
Ontario, 

ice- President, Steel and Radiation Company, 

Director: Toronto Street Railway Company, Richelieu and On- 
tario Navigation Company, British American and Western 
Assurance Companies, 

Financial Director, Board of Trustees, Trinit}^ University. 

Sir Henry is Colonel of the Queen's Own Rifles, with which Regi- 
ment he has been associated from his ^''outh. 

Major of the Queen's Jubilee Contingent in England, 1897 ; Com- 
manded Canadian Contingent at the Coronation of King 
Edward; Knighted by King Edward in 1905, and croat-ed 
Commander of the Victorian Order by King George V., at 
Balmoral, Scotland, 1910. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, National, etc., Toronto; Rideau CUib, 
Ottawa. 



SIR WILLIAM MACKENZIE. 



Born, Kirkfield, Ontario, 1849. 

President : Canadian Northern -Railway, Toronto Street Railway, 
Winnipeg Electric Railway, Sao Paulo Tramway, Light and 
Power Company. 

Sir William controls the Electrical Development Company of 
Ontario and is identified with a number of Canada's leading 
industries. 

Knighted by King George V., 1911. 

Clubs : York, Toronto, Albany, National and Toronto Hunt Club. 



SIR DONALD D. MANN. 



Born, Acton, Ontario, 1853. 

Associated with Sir William Mackenzie since 1886, and lias been 
active in tlie undertakings of the Mackenzie and Mann Com- 
pany since its organization. 

Vice-President: Canadian Northern, Ontario and Halifax and 
Southwestern Railways. 

Director : Atikokan Iron Company, Moose Mountain Mines, Lim- 
ited, Winnipeg Electric Railway and other prominent con- 
cerns. 

Clubs : York, National, etc. 



joSHFH WESLEY FLAVELLE, L.L.D. 

Born, Peterborough, Ontario, 1858. 

President and General Manager, Wm. Da vies Company, Limited. 

President, National Trust Company ; Director, Canadian Bank of 
Commerce, etc. 

( ~*hai]'nian, Board of Trustees, Toronto 0-eneral Hospital, and 
(rovernor, University of Toronto, 

Clubs: York. Toronto, National, etc. 



ZEBULON ALTON LASH, K.C. 

Born, Newfoundland, 1846. 

Called to the Bar, 1868, and he was for some years a member of the 
law firm of Beatty, Chadwick & Lash, Toronto. 

Deputy Minister of Justice of Canada, with residence at Ottawa, 
1872-1876. 

Lecturer and Examiner in Commercial Law, Law^ Society of On- 
tario; created a Queen's Counsel by the Marquis of Lorne, 
1879, and in 1880 was Counsel for the Government of Canada 
before the Judjcial Committee of the Privy Council in the 
Mercer Escheat Case. 

In 1862 he re;- his office under the Crown, and resumed priv- 
ate practice in the firm of Messrs. Blake, Toronto. 

Mr. Lash is a Bencher of the Ontario Law Society, and Counselor 
to the Canadian Bankers' Association and other corporations. 

Vice-President: Canadian Bank of Commerce, National Trust 
Company. 

Director: Canadian Lake and Ocean Navigation Company, Lim- 
ited, Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Company, 
Rio de Janeil'O Tramway, Light and Power Company, To- 
ronto Brewing and Malting Company, Limited. 



DANIEL ROBERT WILKIE. 

Born, Qiieber;, 1846. 

President and General Manager^ Imperial Bank of Canada. 

Viee-Presjdent, >. .ii.adian Bankers' Assocdation. 

ral Accident Company. 

Director: Toronto General Trusts Corporation, Confederation 
Life Association, Victoria Rolling. Stock Company, Limited ; 
Ontario and Qn'Appoile Land Company, Limited; etc. 

Clubs: York,, . , . i.d, Toronto, Albany, Toronto Hunt, Lambton 
Golf and Country Club, Toronto; Mount Royal, Montreal; 
IJiiiou Club, Lonr''^'") "'England. 



EDWARD ROGERS WOOD. 



Born, Peterborough, Ontario, 1866. 

Managing Director, Central Canada Loan and Savings Company. 

Vice-President: Dominion Securities Corporation, Limited, Na- 
tional Trust Company. 

Director: Canada Life Assurance Company, Canadian Bank of 
Conunerce, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and Rio de J aneiro 
Tramway, Light and Power Company, etc. 

President, Y. M. G. A., Toronto ; Chairman, Board of Governors, 
Grace Hospital. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, National, R. C. Y. C, Lambton Golf and 
Country Club, Caledon Mountain Trout Club. 



THOMAS LONG. 

Born, County of Limerick, Ireland, 1840. 

Senior Member and President of the firm, T. Long & Bros., Lim- 
- ited. 

President, London and. Canadian Loan and Agency Company. 

Vice-President : Canadian Birkbeck Savings and Loan Company, 
Colling*wood Ship Building Company, Eastern and Western 
Land Company. 

Director: The Merchants Bank of Canada, Consumers Gas Com- 
pany of Toronto, Toronto General Trusts Corporation. 

Clubs: Toronto and Albany. 



WILLIAM JAMES GAGE. 

Born, Brampton, Ontario, 1849. 

President, W. J. Gage & Company, Limited, one of the leading 
and best known book and stationery houses in Canada, 

Mr. Gage was instrumental in establishing for the scientific treat- 
ment of Oonsvimptives, the Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium, the 
King Edward Sanat<)rinm and Toronto Free Hospital for 
Consumptives. 

Chief promoter of the Associate Boards of Trade of the Province 
and was elected its first President ; was President in 1910 of 
the Toronto Board of Trade. 

Clubs: National, etc. 



ELIAS ROGERS. 

Born, County of York, Ontario, 1850. 

President: The Elias Eogers Coal Company, Limited, Crow's Nest 
Coal Company, Limited, National Life Aasiirance Company 
of Canada. 

Director: Imperial Bank of Canada, Dominion Iron and Steel 

Corporation, Imr'P^;-''il QvsrpiitQe and Accident Company. 

Clubs: National, Ontario, etc. 



CHESTER DANIEL MASSEY. 

Born, Township of Haldimand, Northumberland County, Ontario, 
1850. 

Honorary President of Massey-Harris Company, Limited, of 
which firm he has been a Director since its organization. 
Chief Executor of the Estate of his father, the late Mr. H. A. 
Massey. 

Director, National Trust Company, and trustee of a wimher of 
prominent institutions. 



blk WILLIAM MORTIMER CLARK,Kt.,W.S.,K.C.,LL.D. 

Bom, Aberdeen, Scotland, 1836. 

benior MeiuDer oi \ iie la-w firm, Clark, Grey and Baird. 
President, Toronto Mortgage Company. 
Director, Metropolitan Banl: of Canada. 

Chairman, Knox College since 1880. Was for fifteen years Sena- 
tor of University of Toronto. 

St. Andrew's Society for two years. 

Ex-Lieutenant-Cxovernor of Ontario. 



FREDERICK WILD. 

diet: iesiiie Dry (xoods Merchant. 

Born, Sc a Park, South Queeiisbiiry, Scotland, 1832. 

' • ' 1 federation Life Association, Standard Bank 

i)irectui': Canada Permanent ige Corporation, Toronto 

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HON, SIR JOHN MORRISON GIBSON, M.A„L.LD„K,C. 

A.D.C., Lieutenant-GoYernor of Ontario. 
Born, Januar}^ 1st, 1842. 

President, Dominion Power and Transmission Company, etc. 

President, ( *anadian Branch, Ked Oross Society. 

Was Provincial Secretary of Ontario, 1889; and Commissioner of 
Crown Lands, 1896; Attorney General, 1889-190,5. Created 
Qneen's Connsel, 1900; Bencher, Law Society and of Upper 
Canada, 1899. 

Lientenant-Colonel, IHth Regiment of Hamilton, 1895; Honorary 
Colonel, 1901; Colonel Commanding 15th Brigade Canadian 
Militia, 1903; Conimajulcr Canadian Rifle Team to Bisley, 
1907. 

I^asi (Iraud Master. Grand l^odge of Canada, A. F. and A. M. ; 
Grand (\)mmander. A. and A. S. Bite for Canada. 

(■Inbs: Toronto, National and Hamilttm. 

Knighted by King George Y. 1912. 



SAMUEL JOHN MOORE. 

Born, Doddington, Northamptonshire, England, 1859. 

President: Metropolitan Bank, Wm. A. Rogers, Limited, F. N. 
Burt, Company, Limited. 

Vice-President: City Dairy Company, Limited, Imperial Life 
Assurance Company, Noiseless Typewriter Company. 

Vice-President and General Manager, The Carter-Crume Com- 
pany, Limited. 

Director, Mexican Northern Power Company. 

Trustee, Massey Music Hall. 

Clubs : Toronto, and other leading clubs. 



HON. ROBERT JAFFRAY. 

Born, Bannockburn, Scotland, 1832. 

President, Globe Printing Company, Land Security Company. 
Vice-President, Imperial Bank. 

Director: Canada Life Assurance Company, Canadian General 
Electric Company, Limited, Central Canada Loan and Sav- 
ings Company, Toronto General Trusts Corporation and 
other companies. 

Member, Canadian Senate, 

Clubs : York, National, Toronto, and Rideau Club, Ottawa. 



FREDERIC THOMAS NICHOLLS. 



Born, London, England, 1856. 

Vice-President and General Manager, Canadian G-eneral Electric 
Company, Limited. 

Vice-President : Toronto Railway Company, Toronto Power Com- 
pany, Electrical Development Company, Sao Paulo Tramway, 
Light and Power Company. 

Director : Canadian Northern Railway Company, Dominion Iron 
and Steel Company, Toronto Electric Light Company, 
Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Company, 
Western Assurance and British American Assurance Com- 
panies, Imperial Rolling Stock Company. 

Consul for Portugal; Justice of the Peace for County of York; 

Vice-President, Board of Endowment, Trinity University. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, Hunt, Toronto and Rosedale Golf Clubs, 
R. C. Y. C, Victoria Curling Club, Engineers' Club; Mount 
Royal, Engineers' and Canada Clubs, Montreal; Rideau 
Club, Ottawa; Manitoba Club, Winnipeg; Engineers' Club, 
New York. 



, DUNCAN- COULSON. 

Born, ToroBto, 1838. 

President, The Bank of Toronto. 

Was Vice-President, Canadian Bankers' Association. 

Director, Canada Life Assurance Company. 

Clubs • York, National, Toronto, etc. 



SAMUEL NORDHEIMER. 

Born, Memsdorf, Bavaria, Germany^ 1824. 

Consul for Ontario for the Grerman Empire. 

Founder and for many years the President of the leading firm of 
A. & S. Nordheimer Piano and Music Company, Limited. 

Was for many years President of the Philharmonic Society of 
Toronto. 

\'iee-President, Canada Permanent Loan & Savings Company. 
Clubs : Toronto Club, etc. 



JOHN CRAIG EATON. 

Born, Toronto, Ontario, 1875. 

l^resident, The T. Eaton Company, Limited. 

President, Tnrbinia Steam Ship and Hamilton Steam Ship Com- 
panies. 

T)iref't(»r, The Dominion Bank, Great Northern Railway, Cana- 
dian National Exhibition, and Midland Raihvay of Manitoba. 

Member of the Senate, A^ictoria College. 

Honorary Governor and Member, Board of Trustees and h^'iuance 
Committee, Toronto General Hospital. 

Chi])s: York, National, Lambton Golf and Coimtry Club, Royal 
Canadian Yacht Club, Caledon Mountain Trout Club, Thou- 
sand Islands Yacht Club, and (associate member), Manitoba 
Club, Winnipeg. 



AEMELIUS JARVIS. 

Bom, ''Bonsliaw," Yonge Street, County of York, 1860. 

Senior Member of Aemelius Jarvis & Company, and identified with 
many leading financial institutions in Toronto. 

Mr. Jarvis is perhaps the best known yachtsman and outdoor 
sportsman in Toronto, and owned and sailed several Canada 
Cup defenders. 

Clubs : Toronto, York, Toronto Hunt, R. C. Y. C, Royal Hamilton 
Yacht Club, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, Royal London 
(Eng.) Yacht Club, and the Kingston and Queen City Yacht 
Clubs. 



ROBERT ALEXANDER SMITH. 



Born, Parish of Rayne, Aberdeenshire, SeotlaBd. 

Member of the Firm of Osier, llamTiiond and Smith, Financiers 
and Stock Brokers, 

Director : Qu'Appelle, Long' Lake aiKl Saskatchewan Railroad and 
Steamboat Oompaiiy, Consolidated Cariboo Hj^draidic Min- 
ing Company, Limited, Ontario and Qn'Appelle Land Com- 
pany, Limited, Victoi-ia Rolling Stock Compan}^ of Ontario, 
Limited, Toronto Ferry Companj'', Limited, Calgary and 
Edmonton FJailwa\', Ccanmercial (^able Company, etc. 

Was Pi ('sident Toronto Stock Exchange. 1902 and 1903. 

Clubs: York, Toronto. Albaiiy. Toronto Hnnt, Lambtou Coif and 
Country Club. 



EDWARD GURNEY. 

Born, Hamilton, Ontario, 1845. 
President, Gurney Foundry Company. 

President, Gurney Heater Manufacturing Company, Boston. 

Vice-President, North American Life As.surance Company. 

Vice-President, Toronto Board of Trade in 1895, and President 
in 1896. 

Was President, Crown Bank of Canada. 

Member of the Committee, National Sanitarium Association. 
Clubs: National, etc. 



ALBERT EDWARD KEMP, M. P. 

Born, Clarenceville, Quebec, 1858. 

Founder and General Manager, The Sheet Metal Products Com- 
pany of Canada, Limited. 

Director: National Trust Company, Imperial Life Assurance 
Company of Canada. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, Albany, Toronto; Rideau Club, Ottawa; 
Manitoba Club, Winnipeg. 



HON. JAMES J, FOY. K.C., M.L.A., L.L.D. 

Bom, Toronto, Ontario, 1847. 

Called to the Bar of Ontario in 1871 and created Queen's Counsel 
in 1883. 

Member for South Toronto in the Provincial Legislature, 1898. 

Commissioner of Crown Lands for Ontario, 1905, and subse- 
quently in the same year became Attorney General, which 
office he still holds: 

Senior meihber of the law firm of Foy & Kelly, and a Director of 
the Dominion Bank, 

Clubs: York, Toronto, Albany and Royal Canadian Yacht Club. 



ALBERT WILLIAM AUSTIN. 

Born, Toronto, Ontario, 1857. 

Vice-President, Consumers Gas Company, Toronto. 

Director, Dominion Bank. 

Honorary Grovernor, Toronto Greneral Hospital. 

Honorary President and Founder, Lambton Golf and Countiy 
Club. 

Clubs: York, National, Toronto and Lambton Golf and Country 
Clubs. 

Mr. Austin introduced into Canada the first overhead trolley car 
— at Winnipeg. 



ALFRED ERNEST AMES, 

Both, Lambeth, Ontario, 1866, 

hra stnient banker, bead of the firm of A. E. Ames & Company. 

President of the Toronto Stock Exchange, 1898-1899. 

President: Home and Foreign Securities Company, Limited, Cit>- 
Bairy Company, Limited. 

Vice-President: Duluth-Snperior Traction Company, F. N. Burt 
Company, Limited. 

Director: Twin City Rapid Transit Company, Pacific Bnrt Com- 
pany, Limited, Carter-Cnime Company, Limited, Porto Rico 
Railways Company, Limited. 

Was {^resident Toronto Board of Trade, 1901-1902; Regent, \^ic- 
toria TTuiversity; Trustee, Massey Music Hall; Sherbourne 
Street Methodist Church ; Orthopedic Hospital. 

Clubs: Toronto, York, National, Lambton Golf and Country Chib, 
and Queen City Curling Club. 



COLONEL JAMES MASON. 

Born, Toronto, Ontario, August 25tli, 1843. 

General Manager and director, The Home Bank of Gatiada'. . 

Eesiclent-yice-Presi American Surety Company. 

Director: Dominion Steel Corporation, Manufacturers' Life In- 
surance Company, Prudential Trust Company, British and 
Colonial Land and Securities Company. 

AVas one of the original Trustees of the Toronto Public Library 
and became Chairman of the Board; was President of To- 
ronto Mechanics' Institute and one of the founders and for 
two years President of the Canadian IViilitary Institute. 

Was also one of the founders and first President of the Empire 
Club; Acting Chairman of the Executive Committee of the 
Canadian Bed Cross Society during the South African War, 
and is Honorary Treasurer and member of the Central Coun- 
cil in Canada. 

Member of the Canadian National Council and President of the 
Provincial Council for Ont-ario, St. John Ambulance Asso- 
ciation. 

Appointed by the late King EdAvard YII. a Knight of Grace of 
the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Eng- 
land, 

Served in the ranks of the Queen's Own Rifles during Fenian Raid 
troubles; Captain 10th Royal Grenadiers, 1882; Major, 1888; 
Lieut. -Colonel Commanding the Regiment, 1893; Commanded 
No. 2 Service Company Royal Grenadiers, North-West Re- 
bellion, 1885 ; in engagement at Pish Creek ; severely wounded 
in action at Batoclie; Lieut. -Colonel Commanding 'ith Infan- 
tr.y Brigade, 1900-1910, when he retired with rank of Colonel. 

Honorary Colonel 36th "Peel" Regiment. 

Second in Command of whole Colonial Infantry at Queen Vic- 
toria's Diamond Jubilee, London, 1897; Commanded 3rd 
Composite Brigade of Infantry at Quebec Tercentenarj'- Cele- 
bration, 1908. 

General Service Medal with clasp. North- West Medal with clasp. 
Diamond Jubilee Decoration, Colonial Officers' Long Service 
Decoration and Insignia of Order of St. John. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, National, Country and Himt Club, To- 
ronto ; Junior Army and Navy Club and United Empire Club, 
London, England. 



JAMES RYRIE. 

Born, Toronto, Ontario, 1854. 

Pi'esident of Ryrie Bros., Limited, jewellers and diamond mer- 
chants. 

Director: Metropolitan Bank, Imperial Life Insurance Company, 
E. N, Burt Company, Limited, Pacific Burt Company, Lim- 
ited, and International Milling Company. 

Clubs : National, etc. 



ALEXANDER LAIRD. 

Bom, Ballater, Scotland, 1853. 

General Manager, Canadian Bank of Commerce. 

Director : National Trust Company, British American and West- 
ern Assurance Companies. 

Clubs : York, Toronto, and Lambton Golf and Country Club, To- 
ronto; St. JameB Club, Montreal. 



JOHN J. PALMER. 

Born, Clapham, Coimty Surrey, England, 1851, 

President: Toronto Type Foundry Company, Limited, Central 
Press A gency, Limited. 

Clubs: National, etc., Toronto; Carlton City Club. London, Eng- 
land ; Engineers Club, New York City. 



JAMES KERR OSBORNE, 

Born, Beamsville, Ontario, 1843. 

Vice-President, Massey-Harris Company, Limited, North Ameri- 
can Life Assurance Company. 

Director : Imperial Bank of Canada, Canada Landed and National 
Investment Company, Western Assurance Company, British 
American Assurance Company. 

Clubs : York, Toronto, and Toronto Hunt Club. 



;RT E DYMENT. 

Born, Lynden, VVentworth County, 1869. 

Head of the finn, Dymont, nairy, stock brokers. 

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T): ■nil iillectnc iJoi' -i, Uau.nia 

' & Wood Coiiipaiiy, iviercaiitile Trust 
( ■ ■ '^Vvrporation. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, Mount Boyal, Montreal : Rideau, Ottawa. 



CAWTHKA MULOCK. 



ouru. i jiuuLU, Ontario, 1882. 

Head of the Firm, Cawthra Mulock and Company, Bankers and 
Brokers. 

Pre: VVorks, Limited; Canada Bread Com- 

p?))i^^ Lhnited : Giiai'dian Trust Company, Limited. 

Lii:, :ii jL^ajjic. of Gan^^da, Maple Leaf Milling Com- 

Confederation Life Association. 

' Torouto (ireneral Hospital. 

roronto, National, Lambton Golf and Country Club, 
R. C. Y. C, Himt Club, Racquet Club, Ontario Jockey Clfib, 
Toronto ; St. James, Mount Royal, Montreal ; Rideau, Ottawa ; 
Hamilton Club, Hamilton. 



HON. JAMES KIRKPATKICK KERK, K.C. 

Boi ii, norir Giielph, Ontario, 1841. 

Called to the Bar, 1862. Bencher of the Law Society since 1879. 
Created Queen's Counsel, 1881-1896, by the Ontario and 
Dominion Governments. 

Member, Canadian Senate since 1903, and appointed Speaker of 
the 11th Parnament, 1909. 

(I i;: lid, -Master of Masonic Grand Lodge of Canada, 1874-1877. 
IVIember, Supreme Council, 33rd Degree, A. A. and S. Rite, 
and received distinguished order of the Grand Cross of the 
Temple from His Majesty the King, then Grand Mns^ter of 
the Kuii-'htF^ Tpmiilnr. 188^^. 

•Senior Member of the law tirm of Kerr, Davidson, Paterson and 
McFarland. 

Director: Canadian General Electric Company, Limited, Canada 
Foundry Company, Limited, and London Electric Company, 
Limited. 

Clubs: York. National. Albany, etc. 

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THOMAS WALMSLEY. 

Born. "Walnisley Villa," Deer Park, 1845. 

One of the Founders and President of the Queen City Fire Insur- 
ance Company. 

One of the Founders and Prosident of the Hand-in-Hand Insur- 
ance Company. 

One of the l^'duiulers aud (lener;\1 Manager of the Millers and 
Manufactt ■;!•(■ 1 iisn ranee < "'ompany. 

(leneral Manager. F'wo 1 ns".ra.iice Exchange ( V)rporatiou. 

A^'iee- Pi'csident, Cana.dn r*air,t Com^iany; Dircef-or of the Toronto 
Electric Light ( V>nipany. 

Mr. \V^a!n;,sley was oj)c of iho I^\)irnders of the Canada First Party 
and a Chr.rtered Meml^er of the National Club, of whicli he is 
still a member. 

Life Member of St. John's Lodge. A. F. and A. M., and a member 
of the York Pioneers. 

Fenian Raid Medal for service in the G. G. B. G. under Col. Geo. 
T. Denison in 1866. 



NOEL G. L. MARSHALL. 



Born, London, England, 1852. 

President, Standard Fuel Company of Toronto, Limited. 

Vice-President: Title and Trusts Company, Imperial Guarantee 
and Accident Insurance Company. 

Director, Sterling Bank, and Director and Member of the Execu- 
tive, Canadian National Exhibition ; Member, Ontario Parole 
Board. 

Clubs: National, Albany, Country and Hunt Club, Toronto. 





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WILLIAM STONE. 

Born, Birniingham, England, 1856. 

President, Stone, Limited, one of Canada's largest Lithographing 
and Art Printing Concerns. 

Vice-President, National Life Assurance Company. 

Director, The Bank of Toronto. 

President: National Clnb and Ontario Motor League. 

Member: Canadian Manufacturers' Association, and Toronto 
Board of Trade. 

Clnbs : National, Ontario Jockey Club and Toronto Himt Club. 



SIR GEORGE W, ROSS, L.L.U. 

Born, near Nairn, Middlesex County, Ontario, 1841. 

President, Manufacturers' Life Insurance Company. 

Eeceived Degree of LL.D. from St. Andrew's University, Scot- 
land, 1886 ; Minister of Education for Ontario 1883-89, repre- 
senting West Middlesex in the Legislature. 

I^remier of Ontario, 1899-1905. Was Honorable Commissioner to 
Indian and Colonial Exhibtion, London, 1886. Member of 
the Senate, Knox College, and Member of the Canadian Sen- 
ate since 1907. 



G. T. SOMERS. 

Born, Barrie, Ontario, 1867. 

President : Sterling Bank of Canada, Crown Life Insurance Com- 
pany, Canada G-rain Company, Limited, and Ontario Secur- 
ities Company, Limited. 

Vice-President, Toronto Board of Trade. 

Governor, Toronto Conservator}^ of Music. 

Clubs : National, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, etc., Toronto ; Mani- 
toba Club, Winnipeg. 



JACOB LEWIS ENGLEHART. 

Bom ^Vvelancl, Ohio, 1847. 

Chairman, Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. 

Vice-President, Crown Sa™gs and Loan Company, Petrolia, 
Ont. ; London and Western Trusts Company, London, Ont. ; 
Imperial Oil Company, Sarnia, Ont. 

Covernor, Toronto T"^niversitv, 1906-1908, 

Donor and Trustee of Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital, 
Petrolia, Ontario. 

Mr. Englehant is a Mason, golf player and a Member of the York, 
Toronto, and Hunt Club, Toronto; London Club, London; 
Petrolia Chib, Petrolia. 



CHARLES DOUGLAS WARREN. 

Born, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, 1850. 

President: Traders Bank of Canada, Kentucky Coal and Timber 
Development Company, New Orleans, Southern and Grand 
Isle Railway Company, 

Vice-President, Dominion of Canada Gruarantee and Accident In- 
surance Company. 

Was President of the Lake Superior Corporation and Associate 
Companies from 1904-1910. 

Clubs : Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto ; Lawyers Club, New 
York. 



JOHN MACDONALD. 

Born, Oaklands, Avenue Road, Toronto, Ontario, 1863. 

President, John Macdonald & Company, Limited. 

Director: Bank of Toronto, Confederation Life Association. 

Mr. Macdonald is a Justice of the Peace for the County of York 
and a member of the National and other Clnbs. 



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DAVID BLYTHE HANNA. 

Born, Thornliebank, Scotland, 1858. 

Third Vice-President, Canadian Northern Railway. 

Second Vice-President, Canadian Northern Steam Ship Company. 

President: Canadian Northern Quebec Railway, Quebec and Lake 
St. John Railway, Duluth, Rainy Lake and Winnipeg Rail- 
way, Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway, Niagara, St. 
Catharines and Toronto Railway. 

Third Vice-President: Canadian Northern and Ontario Railway, 
Halifax, and Southwestern Railway. 

Director: Western Canada Flour Mills Company, London and 
Canadian Loan and Agency Coinpany, Western Assurance 
Company, Winnipeg Electric Railway, Rio de Janeiro Tram- 
way, Light and Power Company, British Empire Trust Com- 
pany, London, Eng., Canadian Western Lumber Company, 
British American Assurance Company. 

Clubs : York, Toronto, National, R. C. Y. C, Hunt Club, Toronto ; 
St. Charles Country Club, and Manitoba Club, Winnipeg. 



GEORGE HORACE GOODERHAM M.P.P. 

Born, Toronto, Ontario, 1868. 
Manufacturer and capitalist. 

Identified with a number of leading financial and business institu- 
tions and a member of several social and sporting clubs in the 
city. 

President, Canadian National Exhibition x4.ssociation. 
Chairman, Board of Education, 1904. 

Member of the Legislative Assembly since 1908, for South Toronto. 
Clubs: York, Albany, R, C. Y. C, etc. 



ROBERT SLOANE GOURLAY. 

Born, New York, U.S.A., 1852. 

Senior Member of the firm of Gonrlay, AVinter and Leeming. 
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Pianos and Organs ; besides 
being manufacturers of the Gourlay Piano. 

President of Toronto Board of Trade. 

Member of Executive Council, Canadian Manufacturers' Associa- 
tion. 

Member, Toronto Harbor Commission. 

Member, Board of Management, Knox College, and of the Execu- 
tive, Associated Charities of Toronto. 

Clubs: National, etc. 

Honorary Governor, Toronto General Hospital. 



GEORGE H. WATSON, K.C. 

Born, Schomberg, Ont., 1850. 

Head of the firm of Watson, Smoke, Chisholm and Smith, Toronto. 

Mr. Watson has for many years been very prominent as one of the 
leading Coimsel in the Province. 

His firm has a large connection with financial and industrial con- 
cerns in Canada, and conduct much important litigation in the 
High Court and in Appeal and Supreme Court jurisdiction. 



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JOHN BELLAMY MILLER. 

Born, Athens, Leeds County, 1862. 

President: Parry Sound Lumber Company, Limited; Parry 
Sound Transportation Company, Limited; Poison Iron 
Works, Limited; The Consumers Box Company, Limited; 
The Canadian Lumbermen's Association, and the Parry 
Sound Peform Association. 

Lieut. -Colonel, 23rd Regiment, Northern Pioneerg. 

Clubs : National, Ontario, R. C. Y. C, Granite, Rosedale, Toronto ; 
Rideau Club, Laurentian Club, Ottawa. 



WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK McNAUGHT, M.P.P. 

Born, Fergus, Ontario, 1845. 

President and General Manager, The American Watch Case Com- 
pany of Toronto, Limited. 

Vice-President. Canadian Elgin Watch Company, Limited. 

Director: Consolidated Optical Company, Limited, Porto Rico 
Railway Company, National Sanatorium Association and the 
National Club. 

'^I'nii^ber for North Toronto in Provincial Legislature and Member 
" fb.A TTvrlj'fv "F.lpctric Commission of Ontario. 

Honorary Preaicient, Canadian National Exhibition. 
Chibs: National, Royal Canadian Yacht Club and Larabton Golf 
and Country Cliib. 



DAVID FASKEN, K.C 

Born, Tmviisbip of Pilkington, Wellington County, Ontario. 

Member of tlie Law Firm, Beatty, Blaekstock, Fasken, Cowan & 
Cliadwick. 

i-retoicient: Tlip -elsior Life Insurance Company, Nipissing 
Mining Cc'iji[;aay, Limited, Northern Ontario Light and 
Po^^^'er Company, Cobalt Power Company, Limited. 

Vice-President: La Rose Consolidated Mines, The LTnderfeed 
Stoker Company of America. 

Director, Trethewey Silver Mine. 

Ckibs: Natiuiiai and Reform Club. 



JOHN FIRSTBROOK, 

Born, Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, 1856. 

President, The Firstbrook Box Company, Limited. 

Director: The Metropolitan Bank, Northern Timber Company, 
Brantford Street Railway Company and Prudential Invest- 
ment Company. 

Member, Council Toronto Board of Trade; Executive Council 
Canadian Manufacturers' Association; Executive, Civic 
Guild ; Director, Y. M. C. A,, Board of G-overnors and Senate, 
MeMaster University. 

Clubs : IsTational, Queen City Curling Club, Lawrence Park Bowl- 
ing Club. 



ARiHUK bUUFREY FEUCHEN. 



Born, Montreal, Quebec, 1859. 

President and General Manager, The Standard Chemical, Iron 
and Lumber Company of Canada, Limited; Producers of 
Chemieate, Charcoal and Charcoal Iron. 

This Company, of which Mr. Peiiehen is the founder, supplies the 
War Office with Acetone for the manufacture of explosives. 

President and Owner of the McLaren Lumber Oompany of Blair- 

Mr. Peuciieii la also owjier oi the largest Horse Ranch in Alberta, 
located at Pineher Creek. 

AI ember of the Queen's Own Rifles Mdth rank of Major, and ex- 
Rear Commodore and Vice-Commodore of the Royal Cana- 
dian Yacht Club. 

Clubs: ISTational. Albniir, Ontario Jockey Club and Toronto Hunt 

Chib. 



THOMAS B, GREENING. 



Boi'ii, Manchester, England, 1849. 

President, Pure Gold Manufacturing Company of Toronto, Lim- 
ited. 

Identified with Thos. B. Greening and Company, and Todlmnter, 
Mitchell and Company, of Toronto; and the Todhimter, 
Mitchell Coffee Company, Winnipeg. 

1 iouurary Governor, Toronto General Hospital. 

Clnbs: York, National, Arts and Letters Club, R. C. Y. C, Thistle 
Club, and Hamilton and Royal Hamilton Yacht Club. 



SIDNEY FINLAY McKlNNON. (Deceased) 

iiuiii, J ow ijbjii]) ui: Esquesiiig', County of Halton, March 25, 1843. 
Re.tired Wholesale Merchant. 

Mr. McKinnon was identified with several business concerns, being- 
President, Canada Paint Company; Director, Toronto Elee- 
trir> Licrht Company, etc. 

Ui.uus: Aaliuuai •^iLib, Royal Canauutu iacht Club, Lambuuii (iolf 
and Country Club, etc. 



JOHN KAY MACDONALD. 

Born, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1837. 

Managinsr Director, Confederation Life Association since 1874. 

Treasurer and Justice of the Peace for the County of York. 

Mr. Macdonald has for inany years been closely associated with the 
religious and philanthropic life of the city. A Presbyterian 
and an Elder in that church. for more than forty years; and 
for nearly twenty years Convener of the Assembly's Com- 
mittee in charge of the Aged and Infirm Ministers' Fund. 

Member of the Board of Knox College, and Trustee of Queen's 
University. 

Propirlo7it of St. Andrew's College since its establishment in 1899. 

rrtsicleni of the Upper Canada Religious Book and Tract Society. 

President, Children's Aid Society, and was first President of 
Lord's Day Alliance. 

Olub.s : Toronto, etc. ^ ' 



JOHN WOODBURN LANGMUIR. 

Born, Ayrshire, Scotland, November 6, 1834. 

Foimder and Managing Director, The Toronto General Trusts 
Corporation. 

Was Councillor, Reeve and Mayor of Picton, Ontario ; Major of 
Prince Edward Batallion, Militia. 

Inspector of Prisons, Asylums and Public Charities for Province 
of Ontario, 1868-1882. 

President and Founder, Homewood Sanitarium of Guelph, Ont. 

Chairman since 1893, Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park Com- 
mission. 

Chairman, Br nr T Managers, St. Andrew's Church, Toronto. 

During his career Mr. Langmuir has been a Member and in some 
cases Chairman of various Royal Conunissions, the more im- 
portant being the Commission appointed to inquire into the 
Prison and Reformatory Systems of the Province of Ontario 
in .1891, and the Royal Commission on Life Insurance in 1904. 

Clubs: Toronto, York, etc., Toronto; Grovesnor Club, London, 
Eng. 



L. GOLDMAN, A.I.A., F.C.A., F.S.S. 

Born, England, 1851. 

Managing Director, North American Life Assurance Company. 
Mr. Goldman is an Associate, Institute of Actuaries, Great Britan. 
Fellow, Chartered Accountants, Ontario. 

Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, Great Britain. 

Clubs: Toronto, National, R. C. Y. C, Lanibton Golf and Country 
Club, 



LIEUT-COL. HON. ARTHUR JAMES MATHESON. 

Born, Pertli^ Ontario, 1845. 
Treasurer of the Province of Ontario. 
Clubs: Toronto, Albany, etc. 



HERBERT HALE WILLIAMS. 



Born. 'f'Aronto, Ontario, 1862. 

Senior Member of the Fimi of H. H. WiUiams& Co., Real Estate 
Agents. 

President of the International Realty Company and Sole Agent 
in Toronto for the Royal Exchange As^snrance, London, Eng- 
land. 

.Mr. WiUiams is also an entluisiastic Mason, being Past Master of 
Doric Lodge, A. P. and A. M., and a Member of Albany and 
National Clnbs, and the Lambton Golf and Country Clnb. 






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MICHAEL JOHN HANEY. C,E. 

Bonu i(. a . , - I reland, 1854. 

Director: Home Bank of Canada, North American Life Insurance 

Company, Ontario Securities Company, etc. 
Was engaged at different times as Assistant Engineer, Kingston 
and Pembroke Railway, and Divisional Engineer, Lake On- 
tario Shore Road. Superintendent, Pembina Branch, Cana- 
dian Pacific Railway. Manager of Construction of over three 
Imndred miles of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British 
C^olumbia. First Contractor. Red Rivei- Railway. Coiitrae- 
t(.r. Soo Canal. Manager, - ction of Crow's Nest Rail- 

way; Locomotive and Machine Works, Montreal; the Toronto 
Tunnel and numerous other important works, 
ir. iumo c'Ugaged now in constructing the Transcontinental 
Railway Shops at Winnipeg; Trent Valley Canal, Montreal 
Aqueduct. Lnchino and Soulanges Canals and Red River 
Bridges. 



CHARLES ADAMS. 

Born, Norwich, Ontario, 1857. 

Senior Member of the firm Adams Bros., Harness Manufacturing 
Company. 

President: Adams Bros. Harness Company, Adams Shoe Com- 
pany of Brandon, Man., and Rideau Lakes Navigation Com- 
pany, Kingston. 

Director: Northern Cro\vn Bank, Pioneer Insurance Company, 
Brandon, Man. 

Mr. Adams \vas JMayor of Brandon, and served six terms in the 
Manitoba Legislature. 

Member of a number of leading Clubs. 



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JOSEPH HENDERSON. 

Born, Hamilton, Ontario, 1849. 
Second Vice-President, Bank of Toronto. 
Director, Confederation Life Association. 
President, Canadian Shredded Wheat Company. 
Clubs : York, Toronto and Toronto Golf Club. 



HON. J, R. STRATTON, M.P.P. 

!^i-oprietor, Peterborough Examiner. 

\ icc-i resident, Traders Bank of Canada. 

President : Trust and Guarantee Company, Dominion Permanent 
Loan Company, Home Life Association of Canada, Peterboro 
Lock Manufacturing Company. 

Director: Canada Starch Company, of Edwardsburg; Imperial 
Cotton Company, Hamilton ; River duLoup Pulp and Paper 
Company. 

Vri-. Strattou has been identified with the political life of the 
Province of Ontario for many years, representing the Riding 
of AVest Peterborough in the Provincial Legislature, in the 
interests of tlie Liberal party. 

Member of the leading Clubs. 



ALBERT NORDHEIMER. 

Vice-President and General Manager of the Nordheimer Piano 
and Music Company, Limited. 

Consul-General of the Netherlands for the Dominion of Canada. 

Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau, by special appointment of 
Queen WiUiemina. 

Clubs : York, Toronto and Toronto Hunt Club. 



RUFUS SAWYHR HUDSON. 

Bom. PhoU-o;>. Oiiobof. 1843. 

.iomt Ueiierai iViaiiager, Oanada i^ermajnient Mortgage Corpora- 
tion. 

pj-esideiit. Land Mortgage Companies Aissocia i ioii. 

Director: Otto TTio-el f*nTTi7>;mY. Limited, and Foster. Armstrong 
Compni 

MenjDer, buarii ui Uuvernors, .Upper Canada College. 
Chairman, Cit.y Charity Commission . 
Past Prpsident. St. Oeorge's Society. 

Meiiibc.i oi \ V .iJbi;ij i^udge, A. F, and A. M., and of King Solomon's 
Chapter, Eoyal Arch Masons. 

Clubs: Toronto, Albany, etc. 



DANIEL EDMUND THOMSON, K.C., LX.D. 

Born, Township of Erin, County of WeUington, 1851. 
Senior Member of the firm of Thomson, Tilley & Johnston, bar- 
risters, solicitors, etc. 
Vice-President, The Metropolitan Bank, Porto Rico Railway 

Company, Limited. 
Director, Canada Landed and National Investment Company. 
Chairman, Board of Governors, McMaster ITniversity. 
Clnbs: Toronto Chib, Royal Canadian Yacht Club and Toronto 

Hunt Clnb. 



WILLIAM KERR GEORGE. 

Born, Kingston, Ontario, 1861. 

President and Managing- Director, Standard Silver Company, 
Limited. 

Vice-President: Sterling; Bank, Toronto Conservatory of Music. 

Managing iiiit ctor, Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., Limited. 

Director: North American Life Assurance Company, Title and 
Trusts Company. 

Director and Honorary President, Canadian National Exhibition, 
and for three years its President. 

Was President of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, 

Clubs: York, Ontario, National, R. C. Y. C, Hunt Club, Caledon 
Mountain Trout Club, Ontario Jockey Club. 



(;E()RGE HERBERT WOOD, 

Born, Birkcu Sngland, 1867. 

Senior Member of the Finn, Wood, Gimdy and Company, Bond 
Dealers, Toronto, and London, England. 

tn Y. M. C. A. 

Vioe-Uhairman, interdeiionunatioiiai v uniuiittee, Toronto Lay- 
men's Missionary Movement. 

Superintendent, Central Methodist Church Sunday School. 

Chibs: . , . . iial, Lambton Golf and Country Club, Queen . City 
Piii'liiio- rinb. 



WILLIAM HARRIS. 

Born. MarstoM Morteiue. Bedfor.l., '■ngland. 1848. 

„f Th. battoir Company, and of W. Harris & Co. 

a- Harris finds his chief recreation and en- 
.joyment ■,. .nltivation and direction of his farms. 



JOHN ALEXANDBR MURRAY. 

Horn. TnmenVk, Ireland. 

r r , rv. . A'-Kay, Limited. 

Vice-President, Ciobalt Lake Mines Company. 

Yipe-President, Peterson Lake Silver Cobalt Mining Company. 

\, . L the Ho^^'^ r' tnadian Yacht Club, and Granite Club, 



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WILLIAM BUCHANAN MEIKLK, 

Born,. Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, 1860. 

General Manager: Western Assurance Company and British 
American Assurance Company. 

Clubs: Toronto Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, and Toronto 
Hunt Club, Toronto; City Carlton Club, London, England; 
New York Club, New York, and Lawyers Club, New York. 



iLLlAM DONALD ROSS. 

"Borti. T>ittlp Brns d'O a Seotia, 1869. 

,111(1 Direr-tM- The ^,Te-!-ropoHtan Bank. 

Direftor: is' ova Scotia Steel and Ooai Company, Limited, Porto 
Rico Railways Company, Limited. 

Clubs: Toronto, York, National, Toronto Hunt, Toronto Golf, 
Royal Canadian Yacbt Club, Toronto ; St. James Club, Mon- 
treal, 



HARLOW CUMBERLAND. 

\ei- xxa vigation Company , United States. 
President. ra Navigation Company, Canada. 

Pannrlia-n Loan Company, 
:»1 ember, Seiun uruniu, and Corporation, Trinity 

dent, Ont; 1 Society. 

loard of Trade, 

' ^ . vSsuciatioTi ''^'^•' litv College; Alumni 

:»uty ^Supreme »S( , i. 0 udon, England, and 

I'reskL nadian Society of London, England. 



CLARENCE A, BOGERT. 

Bora, Napanee, Ontario, 1864. 
General Manager, The Dominion Bank. 

Clubs: York, Toronto, Ontario Jockey Club, Toronto, and Lam- 
ton Golf and Country Clubs, and Hunt Club, Toronto; St, 
James and Mount Royal Clubs, Montreal, 



HARRY ALDEN RICHARDSON. 

Born, Middleboro, Nova Scotia, 1865. 
General Manager, Bank of Nova Scotia. 
Clubs: York, Toronto, National, etc. 



STUART STRATHY. 

Bom, Toronto, Ontario, 1860. 
Gfineral Manager, Traders Bank of Canada, 
Member, Executive Board, Bishop Strachan School 
Clubs; York, Toronto and Toronto Golf Club. 



THOMAS FERGUSON HOW. 

Born, Toronto, Ontario, 1860. 
General Manager, Bank of Toronto. 
Director, Crown Trust Company, Montreal. 
Clubs: York, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, etc. 



F. W, BAILLIE. 

BoLji, Toronto, Ontario, 1875. 

President, Baillie, Wood & Croft, Bankers and Brokers; Mem- 
. bers, Toronto Stock Exchange. 

President, Canada Steel Con\pany, and a JJirector of the Black 
Lake Consolidated Asbestos Company. 

Meiuijti' o f the Board of (Iraee Hospital and of W3^cliffe College. 

Clubs: Nati(nial, Toronto, Albany, Lambton Golf and Country 
Club, Ontario Motor League and Toronto Board of Trade. 



u.uivuL ANDREW MORROW, 

, Millbrook, Ontario, 1877. 

\M/.o-P7-ec^|r^(-.Tif T)ninim"on Sofuritips Oorpora+ion, Limited. 

iMiccuu : Ceiiti'cii Caiiada Loan and jSaviiigs Oonipany, Imperial 
Life InsiiraiK- ' npany of Canada, Western Assurance 
Company, BriUtsU American Aissuranee Company, Imperial 
Guarantee an ' ' wlent Company, and Mississippi River 

nubs: Toronto Club, National Club and Ontario Club. 



JAMES BICKNELL, K.C. 

Born, Battersea . Park, Surrey, England, 1862. 

Senior Member of the Law Firm, Bicknell, Bain, Stratiiy & 
^facKelean, 

i^eueiiLT ui till- i.aw ^:?uLiety of Upper Canada. 

r^haimian, Legal Education Goimiiittee. 

Member, Senate, Toronto LTniversity. 

Director, Dominion Bond Company, Limited. 

Chibs : York, Hamilton, Albany, Royal Canadian Yacht, Lambton 
Golf and Country and Rosedale Golf Club. 



CORNELIUS ARTHUR MASTEN, K.C. 

Bom, Parish of St. Bernard de LacoUe, County of St. John's, 
Quebec, 1857. 

flead of the firm of Hasten, Starr, Spence and Cameron, Toronto. 

Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. 

General Counsel foi* the Bank of Nova Scotia. 

President, Director and General Counsel, The McKinley-Darragh- 
Savage Mine of Cobalt, 

Director, Jupiter Mine, Porcupine. 

Director and Counsel for the Kathbim Company, Deseronto. 

Counsel for the Bay of Quinte Railway Company. 

Director and Counsel for the Canadian Western Natural Gas, 
Light, Heat and Power Company, Limited. 

Counsel for the Province of Alberta, and Director and Counsel 
for the Dominion Nickle Copper Company, Limited. 

(^lubs : York, Toronto, Albany, Toronto Hunt, and Golf Club. 



THOMAS ROBERTSON. 

Born, Scotland, 11th September, 1838. 

President and General Manager of the well known firm of Eobert- 
son Brothers, Limited. 

President, Monetary Times Printing Company, Limited. 

Member, Canadian Manufacturers' Association and Toronto 
Board of Trade. 

Clubs : National and Royal Canadian Yacht. 



JOHN ARNOLD McKEE. 

Born, Rosemont, Simcoe County, Out., 1859. 

A Conmiereial Traveller, Mr. McKee founded The Dodds Medicine 
Company, Limited, doing- a wide continental and European 
business. 

President and Owner, The Western Steamship Company, plying 
on the Great Lakes. 

Mr. McKee owns a stock fai'in, working three hundred and fifty 
acres within a few miles of the city, and is a Director of sev- 
eral financial institutions. 

(ylubs: National, Ontario, Victoria, Royal Canadian Yacht, Cale- 
don Mountain Trout and Rosedale Golf Clubs. 



FREDERICK BURTON ROBINS. 

Born, Stroud, Simcoe County, Ontario, 1866. 
President, Robins, Limited, Toronto, 

This firm, doing a wide continental business, has branches in Mon- 
treal, Hamilton, London, England, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 
Scotland, 

Clubs: National, Rosedale Golf Club, and St. Stephen's Club, Lon- 
don, England. 



KDWAKD WILLIAM COX. 

Born. Ppferborons^h, Ontario, 1864. 

Director and lieneral Manager, Canada Life Assnrance Company. 

President, Imperial Guarantee and Accident Company. 

J^ireetor: Central Canada Loan and Savings Company, jSTational 
Trust Company, Western Assurance Company, British Amer- 
ican Assurance Company. 

Clubs: National, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Toronto Hunt Club, 
and Lambton Golf and Country Club. 



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WILLAM HENRY PEARSON. 

,. Brixton, Surrey, England 183.1. 

..' iM ; Eeorir»nir>oi f+as App^iTMfiT^: ^~^o- '^^^T-^"'"tion Company and 
1-' resident m ib'i)-) OL ; 

1874-1888: General 

Manager, 1888 to 1909. 
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GEORGE PERCIVAL SCHOLEIELD. 

Born, Lloydto-vvm, Ontario, 1867. 
General Manager, Standard Bank of Canada. 
Director, Mamifacturers' Life Tnsnrance Company. 
Clnbs: York, Toronto, Eoyal Canadian Yacht Club. 



GEORGE A. SOMERVILLE. 

Born, St. Mary's Ontario. 

General Manager, Manufacturers' Life Insurance Company, 
niib^!- Yori-, ToroTito, ISTational and Eoyal Canadian Yacht Club. 



GERHARD HEINTZMAN. 

Born, Osnabruck, Germany, 1849. 

President and founder of Gerhard Heintzman Co., Limited, Manu- 
facturers of High-Grade Pianofortes. 

President, German Benevolent Society. 

Director, Deutscher Verein. 

Member, Technical School Board, National Club, Toronto. 



JOHN LAWRENCE SPINK. 

Born, King Township, County of York, 1845. 

President: J. L. Spink, Limited, and The Fire Insurance Ex- 
change Corporation. 

Vice-President, The Millers and Manufacturers Insurance Com- 
pany. 

Director : National Life Assurance Company of Canada, and City 
Dairy Company, Limited, of which he Avas the first General 
Manager. 

Mr. Spink was Treasurer of the Toronto Board of Trade for the 
years 1893, 1894, 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1903. 



JAMES CURRY. 

Born, Diitt'erin Oounty, 1859. 

I 'resident, »J. L ariT Company, Limited. 

Member: Board of Trade, Ontario Club, Toronto; Rocky Moun- 
tain Club and Waldorf Hall, New York City. 

Member: St. Patrick Chapter, Royal Arcli Masons, Toronto, and 
a number of social and fraternal societies, 

Mr. L urry nas always taken a deep interest in linancial matters 
effecting the city's welfare and that of many benevolent in- 
stitutions. 



Born, near Hamilton, Ont., 1866. 
Managing Director, Maple Leaf Milling Company, Limited. 
President, Hedley Shaw Milling Company, Limited. 
Vice-President, Bt. Mary Cement Company, Limited. 
Clnbs: National, Granite, etc. 



FKHDERiCK WILLIAM BROUGHALL, 

Born, Toronto, Ontario, 1867. 

General Manager, St. . Bank of Canada. 

Clubs: York, National, Albany, and Toronto Golf Club. 



WILLIAM GRIFFITH TKETHEWEY. 

"^r^.<=koka -Falls, Ontario, 1866. 

a ininiber of Ciubs, aud identified with several biisines 
concems.